You could spend your life studying Romans 8 and never exhaust its depths. People have tried. It is rich. Mark this down as a chapter to return to – again and again. It will serve you well. My grandmother’s favorite verse is here – Romans 8:28. My dad often signed off with these words as well.
There are deep theological waters here.
For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined . . . and whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.
There is practical instruction and encouragement for life.
You have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. If you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live.
There are words of comfort for times of hardship and struggle.
When words fail us in prayer . . . the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And my grandmother’s favorite, we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him.
Like I said, rich.
But what echoes deep in the heart long after the book is closed is the poetry.
For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
– Paul Abbott
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